Man shot outside his Las Vegas home dies at hospital
A Las Vegas man pulled into his central-valley driveway Wednesday morning and checked his mail. Moments later, he was shot “for no apparent reason,” police said.
The man, about 25 years old, got into a confrontation with four young men, Metropolitan Police Department said. He was then shot at least three times in his driveway about 12:10 a.m. on the 5500 block of West Dewey Drive, near Russell and Lindell roads.
He died at a hospital, Metro Lt. David Gordon said.
The door to his car was still open as homicide detectives investigated Wednesday morning.
According to witnesses in the area, multiple people were seen running away from the incident, a news release said. Responding officers were unable to locate any suspects.
Homicide Lt. Dan McGrath said the man was “innocent” and “killed for no apparent reason.” McGrath likened his killing to that of 21-year-old Makayla Leilani Rhiner, who police said was stabbed to death by an ex-boyfriend on Thursday 3 miles west on West Russell Road.
Standing outside the scene Wednesday morning, McGrath said the man killed lived with his family at the Dewey address. His family was inside during the shooting and heard the gunshots.
McGrath described the victim as a student but did not say where he attended school.
The four young men, who police said were wearing hoodies and described as in their late teens or early 20s, were standing against a north wall near the house before the shooting.
“With this kind of weather, you would stick out wearing a hooded sweatshirt when it’s 90-plus degrees,” McGrath said.
Letisha Mahrou, 33, who lives down the street, said one neighbor going for a jog saw the men in hoodies hiding behind the wall and called the police. Officers were reviewing her security footage, and McGrath asked anybody who might have seen them to contact Metro.
“I hope they find them,” she said.
McGrath said there were possibly two shooters; police found two kinds of casings at the scene. Police didn’t know a motive and were investigating what the group of four was doing nearby.
“We don’t have a lot to go on at this point,” McGrath said.
The Clark County coroner’s office will identify the man once the next of kin is notified.
About 2:30 a.m., a next-door neighbor pulled up to the taped-off southeast corner of Henshaw Avenue and Lindell in a Hyundai sedan.
The neighbor said he and the deceased’s family have the only two curved driveways on the block. They don’t interact much, apart from the occasional wave, he said, motioning with his hand.
Back from work and wearing a tie and dress shirt, the neighbor shared text messages from a roommate who heard the shooting. The neighbor, who asked not to be identified, said his roommate heard “a big bang.”
“It was so close that she wasn’t sure if it was banging (on the door) or a gunshot,” he said.
Metro officers confirmed it was gunfire when they knocked on her door and told his roommate not to go outside.
“I was scared for her,” the neighbor said.
Contact Mike Shoro at mshoro@reviewjournal.com. Follow @mike_shoro on Twitter. Review-Journal reporter Briana Erickson contributed to this report.
